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 Lytton WW. Adapting a feedforward heteroassociative network to
-Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics.  J Computational Neuroscience, 5:353--364, 1998.
+Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics. *J Computational Neuroscience*, 5:353–364, 1998.
 
 At launch this example quantitatively reproduces figure 5 of the paper.
 The window appearance is shown in fig5.gif.
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ NB: program uses SNS synaptic formalism that predates NetCon.
 Also it supplies its own standard run library so Graphs
 from the NEURONMainMenu will not work. Run different
 patterns with
-	show(2)
+
+    show(2)
+
 where the 2 may be replaced by an integer in the range from 0 to 59.
 The results of each run will be displayed in the tray after the run.
 
@@ -28,7 +30,11 @@ Changelog
 ---------
 2022-05: Updated MOD files to contain valid C++ and be compatible with the
          upcoming versions 8.2 and 9.0 of NEURON.
+
 2022-12: passiv.mod: drop INDEPENDENT block for v
          Required for upcoming NEURON 9.0.0
+
 2023-04: Do not store pointers to RANGE variables.
          Required for upcoming NEURON 9.0.0
+
+2025-05-27: Standardized to Markdown.